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Owning #1200 · From Chad

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  When was the last time you washed and waxed your rental
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  car? There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chad #1200 to upgrade your
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  mental game today by telling yourself a better story.
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  Because the most important story you hear is the story you tell
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  yourself. This message is dedicated to
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  Madison Noel Smith. You get a free copy of my book,
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  The Most Powerful Story in the World, by going to from
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  chad.gumroad.com. The transcript of this message
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  and hundreds of others are always available at
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  www.fromchat.com. Here's the upgrade.
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  You may think you have to own something before taking
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  responsibility, but upgraded Think he knows ownership is a
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  mindset. Here's the story.
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  In 1978, General Bill Creech took command of Air Force's
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  Tactical Air Command. He inherited a problem.
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  Too many jets were sitting on the ground because of
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  maintenance issues. The maintenance system was built
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  on specialists. Tom Peters and Nancy Austin
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  described it this way. A technician might be
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  responsible for two square feet of the right wing of hundreds of
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  planes. Everybody worked on every jet.
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  Nobody was responsible for any one of them.
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  And as Peter and Austin put it, only whole planes fly.
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  So Creech changed it. Each jet got a dedicated crew
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  chief. Crew chiefs weren't new.
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  What was new was this, the same chief on the same jet for the
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  long haul. That plane was theirs.
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  The plane and its mission became the customer.
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  The crew chiefs took it personally.
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  They went everywhere their jets went, deployments, inspections,
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  the wash rack, and they rode their technicians hard.
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  When Creech came around to ask how they like the new
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  arrangement, a Sergeant answered him with a question.
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  General, when's the last time you washed a rental car?
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  Nobody washes a rental car. You fill it up, you drive it,
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  you turn it in, maybe a little dirtier than you found it.
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  It's not yours. But those crew chiefs didn't own
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  those jets. The government did.
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  None of them held a title. They just decided the plane was
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  theirs and that was enough. Ownership is a mindset.
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  You're driving a lot of rentals right now.
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  A job you're just passing through, a team you'd rather not
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  get attached to. Rentals get used owned, things
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  get washed. The better story to tell
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  yourself is I don't need a title to treat it like it's mine.
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  Just out of curiosity, what's one thing you've been treating
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  like a rental that you'd take better care of if you called it
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  yours? Pick one thing today.
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  Your desk, your work, your people.
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  Stop renting it, wash it. Tell me a story of something you
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  decided to own to from Chadsmith at gmailcom.
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  Send someone a text and ask them what's something in your life
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  you've been treating like a rental.